Yingyang Zhou-LookingOutwards-3

Strand Garden/ Matsys/ 2016

Inspired by the organic curves of Art Nouveau and translated through Matsys’s unique approach to digital craftsmanship, these four new pieces explore the champagne-making process and its emblematic materials.

Strand Garden’s three screens of curved strands, evoking tree trunks or vines, mark out a central area: “You’re in a small clearing,” Andrew Kudless explains. “You get hints of what lies beyond, but it’s an inward-looking, reflective space.”

Strand Garden

chiars in organic form

Details of the table

prototype/ 2014

Strand Garden

Strand Screen

Stand Table

Strand Tower Prototype

 

This project prototype explores the capacity of lightweight tubular structures to create an immersive experience for a lighting festival. Due to the short duration of the festival, the structure needs to be both lightweight as well as quickly deployable. Each tube is made from three planar pieces of CNC-cut HDPE. These parts are riveted together causing the planar material to slightly bend which also results in local stiffening of the material. Globally, each tube is twisting along its central axis which also adds a general rigidity to the tube.

In order to create an experience for the festival visitors that is engaging, playful, and innovative, the tubes transition from a bundled network at the top to individual strands at the base that allow visitors to walk between. A LED light strand is positioned at the centre of each tube and reacts to visitors’ movement as well as ambient conditions such as wind. This network of strands resonates with the complexity of local mangrove forests and provides a space for interaction, exploration, and play.

 

what I admire about this project is that it create a great atmosphere and subtly react to people passing through. My guess about the technology is using Arduino programmed to react to the movement of people and wind